Saturday day off today, sort of. Clare is working so just me and the boys at home. No car, so a great excuse for not going out and doing anything. Meant to hop my new home brew last night but I forgot. The temperature has been a bit on the low side so luckily my new aquarium heater1 has arrived. I've hopped the beer already, but now I'm going to sterilise this and pop it into the brew. It has it's own thermostat, so I can compare that with my own temperature readings too. It has its own power supply, there's no external transformer or anything so I can even connect it to the relay that I have for the raspberry pi that is already measuring the temperature and use that to control it rather than its own in built thermostat. It's 100 Watts, which is a lot of energy usage for me, but you can't really get a low energy rated heater. If I connect it using the relay, or a lightwaverf socket I could turn it off when the tumble dryer is on. Don't have a spare socket right now though. Could try the lightwaverf relay at last I suppose.
Very annoyed today that a low energy bulb I bought from CPC has failed after only about two months, if that. That's a seven quid dimming bulb, that's not saving me any money, so going to complain.
raspberry pi: Credit card sized super cheap computer, awesome.
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